Topics - IanL-S

This is a really weird one. Last night one of my 2400s started spontaneously rebooting, then a 7100+ started doing the same thing. It was the reboot process like previously associated with too much EPG data before I culled the services being downloaded. I gave up trying to fix it and went to bed. This morning both 2400 and both 7100+ were doing it. Disabling Ice TV stopped the reboot cycle.

The odd thing is that the 5300, which is on a different IceTV account did not appear to do this. Did anything change last night at the server end?

The first account currently has 26 channels enabled and the second account has 27 channels enabled which does not help. However the 5300 has very few timers which may be significant.

The is an inconsistency on the guide data for Great Indian Railway Journeys, SBS HD Saturday 2 May 2020. The program description is:Kiev To OdessaWith his Bradshaw's 1913 Continental Railway Guide in hand, Michael Portillo ventures east .....

SBS seems to get confused as to which "@@@ Railway Journeys" is being shown - the content is usually more accurate than the Guide entry.

Last night my T2 recorded the Mentalist 8 times - all starting at the same time. Never seen anything like it before. Anyone else have this problem? WHoops, just noticed everything recorded multiple times yesterday. Other T2 did not exhibit this problem (fortunately).

According to the Ice TV EPG and the recording name the episode of Above Suspicion transmitted on 26-03-20 on 9GemHD Melbourne was "The Red Dahlia Part 1" (a season 2 episode) whereas it was in fact Part 2 of Above Suspicion, a season 1 episode (only 2 episodes in season 1). I thought it was odd that the second episode had not been shown when the "The Red Dahlia Part 1" was scheduled to be shown.

I assume that the error is due the error provided by Nine Network. I would expect that "The Red Dahlia Part 1" will in fact be shown in the coming week.

Recent changes to IceTV means that it is no longer possible to limit series recordings to a specified network. There are numerous programs that are transmitted on more than one network, Antiques Roadshow (ABC and Nine), Law and Order Special Victims (Ten and Nine), Cold Case (Nine and Seven), Extreme Railways Journeys (SBS and Seven). I can only select All LCNs or oneLCN when scheduling a recording.

This just does not work, as some programs are shown on multiple LCNs, for example Poirot, Miss Marple, Cold Case, can be on either 9Gem/9Gem HD or Nine/Nine HD.

The only good thing is the old timers retain their settings.

This makes things far more difficult for users! I am peeved. I am angry!

Ian

Addendum: As a result of this change I am getting numerous time conflicts because episodes I do not want to record are recording on a network that is showing episodes I have already seen. This is very annoying. I suspect there are others who have multiple PVRs and spread recording across them: in my case I record Nine and Seven on Topfield 2400 and ABC, SBS and 10 on my 7100+ are also have further issues. With my T2's it is ABC and SBS on one and Nine, Seven and 10 on the other.

This program has a running time of 135 minutes, whereas my recollection is that it should only run about half that time. The "repeat" on Wednesday afternoon 9Gem HD, 3:20pm, Wed, 11 Mar 2020, is only 70 minutes and is followed by a second episode, 'The Adventure Of The Western Star' at 4:30pm, with a 60 minute running time.

Over the last week there has been several instances of incorrect episode titles and synopsis for Unforgettable. The episode on 29-07-19 was titled "Maps and Legends" but by writer and director credits appears to be "Till Death". "Maps and Legends" was transmitted last week (cannot remember if it had correct title and synopsis).

I expect that incorrect information was provided by Nine network. This happens from time to time particularly with programs scheduled late at night or early in the morning.

Not sure if anything can be done about it but it is important to be aware of sloppiness of Nine network in this regard.

Today the guide had Trapped 2 episode 4 followed by Trapped 1 episode 4 (repeat) - the latter was in fact Trapped 2 episode 5. Fortunately I had both first runs and repeats set to record. Presumably SBS provided incorrect information to IceTV.